Please join us at the tenth annual
Charlotte Harbor Nature Festival
-- a day to learn about and enjoy the natural environment of southwest Florida.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Charlotte Sports Park at 2300 El Jobean Rd. (S.R. 776)
Port Charlotte ~ 2.5 miles west of US 41
Thanks to everyone for making the ninth annual Charlotte Harbor Nature Festival a great success. Details about the first nine festivals are available as a PDF file as are the programs created for each event.
Help promote the festival: 8.5 x 11" flier in English and in Spanish
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The 2010 festival is dedicated to Joy Linn.
Joy Linn
devoted many years of volunteer service to several organizations, primarily
Peace River Audubon Society, Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center,
Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program and the Peace River Medical
Center. For CHNEP, she helped plan the first four annual Charlotte Harbor
Nature Festival from 2001 to 2004. Many people looked up to Joy for her
energy, intelligence, generosity, sense of humor and love of her husband.
She passed away on March 24, 2009 from multiple myeloma.
“Connecting with nature” is the message that will come to life at the Charlotte Harbor Nature Festival. The Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program is pleased to sponsor the ninth annual festival – a day to explore, learn and enjoy the natural environment of southwest Florida.
Visitors can participate in activities geared toward all ages, including nature exhibits, local artists, live native animals, musicians, wagon rides and guided walks to the Tippecanoe Regional Park (if conditions permit).
Children won’t want to leave the Discovery Zone, which is packed with games and activities. Children can learn about fish and fishing and then receive a free fishing pole! (Children ages 4 to 14 can participate in an educational program then receive a fishing equipment. Children must be able to cast a rod.)
Guest speakers will cover water issues and native animals. Musicians will perform songs about the environment. Mote Marine Laboratory will bring their mobile exhibit with its touch tanks. Food and beverages can be purchased at the event.
Festival organizers have again chosen to make this event free so that as many people as possible can enjoy it.
The festival is funded through event sponsorship and a raffle that will be held at the festival. The event planning committee invites your business, organization or association to be promoted as a sponsor or exhibitor, joining many others, if their information is about the natural environment of southwest Florida. The festival is organized and planned by a dedicated group of volunteers representing a diverse number of organizations and associations.
This website at www.CHNEP.org will include this brochure, sample press releases, discount information on nearby hotels and other important information. The most up-to-date information about the Festival will always be available on the website. To ease communication for additional event information, participants are encouraged to provide an email address if available. If you wish to talk with someone about the festival, please contact Maran Hilgendorf with the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (866/835-5785 x 240, mhilgendorf@swfrpc.org). Depending on your question, a member of the volunteer Planning Committee may return your call or email.
Please note that there is no rain date. On the day of the festival, updates on the status of the festival due to weather conditions will be available by calling 866/835-5785 x 240.
We hope that you will participate in the Tenth Annual Charlotte Harbor Regional Nature Festival, making it bigger and better than ever.
— Planning Committee Charlotte Harbor Nature Festival November 21, 2009
Details about the first ten festivals are available as a PDF file as are the programs created for each event.
We need your help.
Please consider becoming a sponsor, exhibitor and volunteer
Please register as a sponsor, exhibitor or volunteer